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This book concerns HIV prevention. In it the authors argue that until the world focuses its attention on the social issues carried and revealed by AIDS, it is unlikely that HIV transmission will be eradicated or even significantly reduced. The book argues that we are currently witnessing the remedicalisation or the continuing biomedicalisation of HIV prevention, which began in earnest after the development of successful HIV treatment, and that this biomedical trajectory continues with the increasing push to use HIV treatments as prevention, undermining what has been in many countries a successful prevention response. This wide-ranging study argues that HIV prevention involves enabling people and communities to discuss sex, sexuality and drug use and, informed by these discussion, devising locally effective strategies for promoting safe sexual and drug injection practices.

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Society & culture: general Social issues & processes

• Full title: Socialising the Biomedical Turn in HIV Prevention
• Author: Susan Kippax, Niamh Stephenson
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 194
• EAN: 9781783085040
• ISBN: 1783085045
• ID: 11148970
• Publisher: Anthem Press
• Weight: 448 g
• Dimensions: 159 × 239 × 18 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. June 2016

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